Samantha Barry is the global editorial director for Glamour. She oversees content, development, and consumer experiences across the title’s digital, social, and video verticals for Glamour. Under her leadership, Glamour emphasizes a digital-first focus on original reporting, exclusive features, and unique perspectives impacting women today across the world. During her... Read more
Samantha Barry is the global editorial director for Glamour. She oversees content, development, and consumer experiences across the title’s digital, social, and video verticals for Glamour.
Under her leadership, Glamour emphasizes a digital-first focus on original reporting, exclusive features, and unique perspectives impacting women today across the world.
During her tenure, Barry has transformed the annual Women of the Year Awards into an inspirational celebration, championing Glamour’s diverse community of women and leading Glamour to reach record-breaking monthly audiences, growing video content across platforms. In 2023, Glamour honored their first global Women of the Year selections– Millie Bobby Brown and America Ferrera– for their respective global influence and activism.
Over the last two years, Barry has highlighted female entrepreneurship while advocating for paid leave across the country. During Women’s History Month, Glamour released its ‘By Women: The Glamour 100’– highlighting products from women-owned businesses to drive purchases to their site. At the same time, Glamour launched a national campaign with Paid Leave for All to pass the country’s first paid family and medical leave program, guaranteeing all working people the right to take paid time off to care for a newborn, a sick relative, or themselves.
Most recently, Barry joined First Lady Michelle Obama, Melinda Gates, and Amal Clooney– alongside their respective foundations– in Malawi and South Africa for their fight to end child marriage. During her trip, Barry formed relationships with the grassroots leaders and learned about their organization, ultimately bringing global attention to the cause.
Prior to joining Glamour, Barry served as global head of social media at CNN. She spearheaded the organization’s 2016 election coverage across social platforms, which received the first- ever Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in social media. Barry previously worked as a reporter and producer for BBC World News in London, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Papua New Guinea, and RTE and Newstalk in Ireland.
Barry earned a Master’s in Journalism from Dublin City University and was a 2016 fellow of Columbia University’s Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program. She serves as a guest lecturer at Yale University. She is also a board member for Room to Read, Ever/Body, and the Bologna Business School.
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Samantha Barry speaks on Customer Experience, Digital, Inspirational Women, Social Media. Talks can be shaped around your audience, industry and strategic objectives - share your event brief with London Speaker Bureau and we will work with Samantha to align the content with your delegates and goals.
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Virtual and hybrid keynotes are now a standard part of the speaking industry. Please contact London Speaker Bureau to confirm whether Samantha Barry is available to deliver a virtual session for your event and on which platform (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, a bespoke studio or your own).
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Samantha Barry delivers keynotes in English. If you require simultaneous interpretation or a multilingual format, please mention this in your enquiry and London Speaker Bureau will arrange it for you.
Samantha Barry's areas of expertise include Customer Experience, Digital, Inspirational Women, Social Media. To get a clear sense of Samantha's style, credentials and how they engage an audience, please review the biography, popular talks and any videos or testimonials shown on this page, or request a detailed speaker brief from London Speaker Bureau.
Samantha Barry can be booked through London Speaker Bureau for corporate conferences, leadership events, internal team meetings, association gatherings and private client engagements where expertise in Customer Experience, Digital, Inspirational Women, Social Media is relevant. Details of Samantha's background and previous engagements are included in the biography above; contact us if you would like a more detailed list of past clients or case studies.
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